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JOHN F PROMIP* By EMERSC AUTHOR of feTHE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSOf SYNOPSHk ?| CHAPTER I?John Rawn ta bow * Texas. Early In Hfs h? shows signs m masterfulness and inordinate selfishness. CHAPTER II?He marries Laura Joha>#on. He is a clerk in a St. Louis railway face when his daughter Grace is born. Tsars later he hears Grace's lover, a young engineer named Charles Halsey, of a scheme to utilise the lost curjN6t of electricity. "With his usual un?crupulousness he appropriates the idea W his own and induces Halsey to perfect aa experimental machine. He forms a company, with himself as president, at a *?ry of $100,000 a year, and Halsey as superintendent of the works at a salary ?f $5, (XXX CHAPTER XII?Rawn takes ch&t^e of ; offlop in rrhicaeoi Vireinia Delaware, | * beautiful, capable and ambitious young I woman, Is assigned as his stenographer. I 8he assists in picking the furniture and j decoration for the princely* mansion Rawn has erected. Mrs. Rawn feels out of place In the new surroundings. CHAPTER IY?Halsey goes to New York with Rawn and Miss Delaware to xplain delays in perfecting the new motor to the impatient directors. He gets a message that a deformed daughter has been bora to his wife. Grace Rawn. He returns to Chicago. CHAPTER V?Rawn bargains with Miss Delaware to wear his jewelry and appear In public with him, as * means to help ^- v ?tott BUB 111 tfc uuwucss rrtvj. CHAPTER TT?Rawn Is dominate ta market speculations, piles up wealth ana attains prominence. CHAPTER Vn-He frets because his Irlfe does not rise with him In a soclaj way. He gives her a million dollars to Imti him. TER IX?Grace moves to Graynail, and Halsey continues to live In the cottage near the works. CHAPTER X?Halsey*s machine proves % success, but he keeps the fact a ae* tret. A -rr^r, ? -O-T vn -nQlQTI7!>r*. VnAT"li!> A Al?Tirgiaio . ? ?me* more and more indispensible to Rawn. He takes her to New York on a business trip. Idle talk prompts ilm to offer her marriage. CHAPTER XII?They are married. Through Virginia's tact and ability they Bake a place for themselves in the sociaJ fcerld. ' i CHAPTER XIIT?Halsey threatens to f#t a divorce because his wife refuses to return to him. He tells Rawn that he has fcroken up all the machines after proving the success of the Invention. Rawn, in a iree.c rage, threatens to kill him. CHAPTER XIV?Halsey declares ne will never build another machine fo* Jtawn and slaps his face. Virginia Rawn fctercepts Halsey as he is leaving the \ house and, with arms about his neck, implores him to reconsider, because his decision will ruin them all. CHAPTER XV?Halsey tells Virginia that he has abandoned his invention because it would put a great power in the hands of a few to the detriment of the many. CHAPTER XVI?At Rain's instigation Virginia agrees to try to bring Halsey to A ^ * * 1 ^ i 4- o Terms, no mauer wnat it CHAPTER XVTT?The directors plan tc get the control of the company away from Rawn. CHAPTER XVIII. ' " They Who Sow the Wind. The information given by the ex-! director in regard to the whereabouts j of Charles Halsey was substantially, il j not circumstantially, correct. He had, j Indeed, done the most unlikely thing, j . ;'He had taken up his abode, for the '-time at least, at the very place to ' which he might have seemed least apt to return; that is to say, the home of his father-in-law, John Rawn. Many things moved Halsey to this iaction. In the first place, having endled his labors, he found no reason foi jany pretense of continuing them. -Again, although he fully intended to 'bring divorce proceedings, and fully ] Intended to leave the city, he was unwilling: to denart without seeine once ;more his wife and their child, because :news came to him of the little cripple's serious and continued illness. Id point of fact, Grace Halsey, unhappy, morose, and now jealously suspicious, :had brooded over her unfortunate situation in life until she also really was 'ill. Halsey grieved over this, in spite of all. As to the little hunchback, Laura, she had known only illness all her life; and Halsey, father after all, felt snmp forebodine which made him unready to leave for yet a time. Halsey, in spite of his own bitter ness of soul, realized that Rawn himself was well-nigh crazed by the business situation, and his conscience mis- j gave him when he reflected upon the sudden consequences of his owr\ acts. His sense of business honor and oJ personal justice told him he owed even so unreasonable a man as Rawn some sort of definite accounting foi his own stewardship, unwelcome as another meeting between them must be to both. Lastly, it may be added, Virginia Rawn had sent for him. When he received her message he spent a night resolving that he would not go, that he would never again see either her or Grace; never again would set foot on ground belonging to John Rawn, come what could, let be lost what any of them all might lose. | in tne morning ne cnangea nis reso-1 lution. By evening of the next day he was at Graystone Hall. To his surprise, he found it not immediately necessary to patch a peace 'with the mast3r af Graystone Hall, for Rawn was absent. The great mansion seemed strangely and suddenly changed. An air of anxiety hung over all, the place was oddly silent. The servants went slipshod about their du-! ties, and their mistress did not cTndfl tfcem^ Switc uisintegration oi the do IAWN IENT CITIZEN )N HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT y Walters ^CHOUGH mestic machine "seemed "to threaten; mysterious danger seemed to menace the very structure itself, long of so bold and indomitable front. Halsey still hesitated?and still remained. Rawn customarily divided his time between the operating headquarters in the western city and the general offices in the eastern capital, but now he had found it needful immediately to transfer all his activities to the latter scene. He did not know of his wife's invitation to Halsey, for he had started from his office, without even advising ht his intention, and even without conversation with her by telephone. He telegraphed from the train, stating that he had been called East on urgent matters. After that, no word at all came from him. It was not known when he would return. Halsey could only wait. In truth, he was little better than a man gone mad himself, and Rawn was worse than such ' Gradually, day by day, hour by hoar the terrible strain of this suddenly developed situation began to show its effects upon Rawn. He slept but little after his arrival in the East, showed himself more and more untidy in personal habits; and lastly, began tc seek the false strength of intoxicating drink. His demeanor in his relations with his urbane associates lost its usual arrogance. John Rawn, late dictator, became explanatory, conciliatory?a change of mind which had visible physical tokens. His eye became weaker and more watery, his shoulders more drooped, his voice more quavering, his address less abrupt and domineering. i John Rawn was a broken man, and began to show it. Wherefore his late friends exulted. The wolves, ranged in circle, lick their chops when the fntto-ro nrtrtn Viifi linrpr ! tain legs. Certain large financial figures in the eastern city licked their chops, and smiled grimly, wolflshly, in contemplation of John Rawn as he tottered. Yet Rawn himself could get no direct proof of the identity of those now secretly assailing him. At the directors' meeting of the International he was received politely and respectfully?with too much politeness and respect, as he felt, although himself unlike the man once wont to rule there with an iron hand. He did not dare tell them of Halsey*s defection, could not doubt that they already knew of it; but he met no queries regarding ; that or anything else in the conduct of the western factory's business. No one seemed to know that the most important of all their factories was closed, after a tedious term spent in incompletion. His associates all were as polite as himself, indeed, more so; as ready as himself to discuss gravely and earnestly any detail of the business which now, as all politely agreed, sepmeri "sompwhat involved." or "somewhat delayed." No one offered any criticism of the executive. But, what was far more deadly to him, the market seemed most onerously and cruelly oppressive upon the outside investments of John Rawn. International Power was not hammered, for the reason that there was little of it out to hammer. The Rawn stock in International, of course, did not come upon the market. Rawn intended to hold on to that grimly, fight mg ror it to tne last gasp, trusting to chance to mend matters for him at the eleventh hour. But ruin in the general market faced him; and he knew that, with credit gone, the courts would take for his. former creditors whatever property he could be shown to have. He saw the shadowy circle of the wolves of high finance. Almost he felt their fangs snapping at his hamstrings. In these savage hours the mind of John Rawn oaRt ahmit for rescue, for hope. No rescue, no hope, appeared except one last desperate alternative, purchasable not now with cash or power or influence?since these were gone?but with what other and dearer things remain to a man?things some men, not rotted with the love of self, keep through any or all disaster, prize, even above life and all a life's busi; ness success. Halsey! Ah! Halsey was the savior of Rawn?Halsev. the man who had humiliated him in his own home. How could Halsey be secured? There might be brought to bear upon him one influence?that of a beautiful and fascinating woman! What matter if the one woman was ' his wife, Virginia Rawn? He had al: ready hinted to her of her duty. He | wondered now continually whether \ she had really and fully understood. | He wondered what she was doing with I TT-.1 xiaisey. As to Halsey, who knew little or nothing of all these turbulent emotions, all these crowding incidents, he found his situation in the great house of John Rawn one wholly to his dislike. He saw little of his wife Grace i arrer tne nrst conventional greeting on his arrival, and as to the young mistress of Graystone Hall, she seemed so regularly to have matters demanding her own presence elsewhere, was so busy with other matters, as to have small time for him. The disturbed * f>*n ^ ^ J' *' 'r *vr r r,v'; ating a_furor in the business world, reflected, of course, In fhe daily markets of the western city; but Halsey had never had many investments, had watched the markets little; and now, isolated at Graystone Hall almost as much as though upon a desert island, and too much disturbed and distracted In his own mind to find any definite interest In business matters, was hardly conscious ot the storm that raged. He simply waited on, unhappily. It seemed to him there was no place for him in all the world. Why did Virginia remain aloof? Rawn, absent, in New York, imagined his wife engaged continuously in the struggle of persuading Charles Halsey to see the light of reason, although he did not know Halsey was living under the same roof with her. As a matter of fact, Halsey and she met but rarely. Virginia breakfasted for the most part in her own rooms, and found, or pretended to find, somet-binc tn oo.fiunv her for the most nart of the day. Not once did she ask his attendance, not once did she speak with him, when by chance she saw him, upon any but casual or conventional matters. 9fae seemed always to evade him; and because she did this, he, rebelling, sought her out all the more, even while continually resolving to take his departure, and never again to see this place, or her, again. He wonaerea ai ner reuueuce, iier avoidance of him. He wondered why she was so pale. He loitered about, unhappily, in this or that common meeting ground of the great mansion house, waiting to hear the rustle of a gown upon the stair, the sound of a lignt foot on a floor, the touch of a white hand, the sound of a voice?ali things belonging, not to his wife, but to his young stepmother by law. Yes. Without his wish, in spite of her wish, these had become things desired, the only things desirable any more in his distracted life. He lived under the same roof with two women, saw either rarely, and rareiy thought of but one?the wrong one. To atone, Halsey lavished all his time and care on his little hunchback daughter, and had her with him as much as the nurse and doctor would allow. The child, undersized, pale, deformed, silent and wistful, and pathetic always, now was listless and weak, obviously very seriously ill. It wrung her father's heart to see her. But Charles Halsey wanted it wrung. He wanted to do bitterest penance for what he now knew woo aof?rot ntr? So tVlA wavs of inordinate power, the consequences, for this one or that one, which follow on inordinate greed, worked themselves out toward their sure and logical ending, the mill of fate grinding those primarily, secondarily, even incidentally guilty. At this time,* had Virginia 'Rawn asked of him to recant, to relent, to change, there is likelihood he would have done so. John Rawn, cuckold, was right in his despicable reasoning. There are many prices which purchase principles. The weakness which had prompted Halsey to remain at Graystone hall on such a tenure?which held him there now, waiting for a voice, listening for a footfall?was the anoiont wpnVnPfiS of VOUth before youth, of strength before beauty, of the empty heart before one offering love, of the mind finding perfect echo in another mind. With all his starved heart, all his repressed soul, all his mutinous body, Charles Halsey loved Virginia Rawn. CHAPTER XIX. They Who Water With Tears. As at last the news of John Rawn's collapse broke full and fair?disastrous enough to please even his late warmest friends, the stock markets east and west, became scenes of riot. The truth, of course, had leaked out regarding Rawn's fight in the last ditch. The newspapers swarmed upon Graystone hall, besieging any who could be found. Halsey refused to talk, and moreover, Rawn could not be found. This threw them upon their own resources, and what they did not know they imagined. Even thus, the wildest of them all could not imagine half; the shrewdest of the journalists could not get their hands on the "inside story" here. No one in or around or back of the stock exchanges could be found possessed of secret information which he was willing to impart. Throughout wild hours of hurrying, telegraphing, investigating, the papers kept up their frenzied search for the trutji, and found it not, and knew they had not found it. Halsey, one morning after a sleepless night, more than a week after Rawni departure to New York, secured copies of each of the morning papers. He stood uncertain, in the j great central room or (iraystone nan, | with these black and frowning messengers of fate in his hands, scarce daring to look at them. He felt some sense of definite disaster at hand. He glanced at last at one, and started as though struck. Calling a servant, he sent word to Mrs. Rawn inquiring if he might meet her at once. She joined him presently, smiling 'faintly, giving him her hand, then leading him to a breakfast table on the long gallery facing the lake front, a favorite spot with her. She gave the butler orders to serve them breakfast here at once; for she now learned Halsey had neither slept nor eaten. Halsey did not learn that the same i also was true of her. , They seated themselves and for the time said nothing, each gazing out over the lake. The morning was calm ^ kino 1 q bo 'net | aiiu UCd U LAI Ul. I UU AUttv. uwv ! dotted with little whitecap rolling waves, seemed in amiable mood, ana purred gently along the sea-wall, below the green and curving terrace : which ran down from the gallery j front. A bird chirped here and there I LHtlo enough th? peaceful scene re J I mi ?T i [he INewber Capital Stock "The Bank That SOUNI ,start ai CoDTrizht 1969, A Bank 1 tige to < vidual, is conv and places. V . kets with cum robbery, when ?;n l llUJUVvJ 111 VUl IV at will? We pay 4 pel and $1.00 today and see how est multiplies your _J fleeted "the feelings of These, lts"only sarlierlife human figures. Virginia Rawn was "Quite sc pale. Dark rings showed below her tory of Mr eyes. Her mouth drooped just a trifle, did when h plaintively, in a way not usual with he came fr< her. She was pale, paler than her how he fai usual clean and clear ivory. Yet she Here's the was coolly Deauuiui 111 iiei uiuium6 ruwer uuili gown of light figured lawn, with its tended as. a wide, flowing sleeves, showing her companies round white arms. Halsey, frowning- of the cou ly serious, felt the charm of her rise eight billior about him, overwhelm him. He knew to two hun that the hour had come for him in can take vo more ways than one; that hers, for Here are bi ever, was the one face and figure and the known ^ ^ Here, Mrs. sel-? as we^ U I one more < 0*^ >SS\\ I ft view? * J blurred, bn \ uisuux ill / i^l sistent tale '^^P^ShS J (a It \ }*"? ( Forum, de( II \? Up V I Rawn's fori lea I Wr I hope of rej ^j f1 that tim< t? <?$9feJ \i I J who really ' i^'dilW J? /J SeIves t0 vi ^ W? vj J/ declared to j cret apartir had been, r John Rawn Was Right in Hit Oespio* received. able Reasoning. cated here, voice and presence for him, hopeless insanity? ac and unhappy, and doomed for ever so * e wri1 -- fatefiillv tip to remain. She was not his wife. Sfie " was the wife of another man?of his enemy; the man in all the world least (TO like himself; the man who, by virtue of that unlikeness, had won this woman for his own. What hope for him, TEACH Charles Halsey, for whom was no An exam place in the world? teachers' c< Without much comment he placed Friday, May before her the morning papers, with examin'ati0E their glaring head-lines. . "WpII " Raid he. "It is tha end." PHcants wi "Yes?" said sh?. railing; "I Mp-1 &ose now wa can Jrtarn^aii about ?ur 1 ry Savings Bank I $50,000 j W Always Has The Money" I W* iANK ACCOUNT , by C. E. Zimmerman C0.--N0. 45 Account lends presmy business or indienient at all times ? /hy load your poc mcy and run risk of you can put your >ank and check out ' i '.7' ' cent on savings deposits, I claffc an arrnnnf Dn it bU MA? MVV>VMAJi?.? W M.%, rapidly compound inter\ money. I" t ~ HHHHBHBHHHHBBHHHHHV ana career: ). Here is the entire his. Rawn's career?what he ^ e was a young man, where Dm, how he rose to power, led and fell?it's all here. story of the International pany?they claim it was in- iHwSBjlM . mfcrger of all the traction of the eight leading cities ntry! Bend issue one to i dollars, capitalization one il as one of Mr. Rawn and ^ ??-? *?.?? Df the house here?a new k. The photographer must a flashlight of the grounds." The monument that- you 3d as he tried to jest, fol- * i*. i j i_ pointing finger along the feel should be erected to the itai head-iines, shrieking memory of your dear dedant, impossible and incon- , ... - . t ;s. The first paper, the parted relative or fnend :iared the ruin of John should be ordered now, for :une to be now beyond all . 7 .air. Rawn himseif-reaiiy the right weather is here for I ?helpless stupor its erection and we will be( York hotel room?was re- " * 1 ave fled the country. Hal- able to give the work the 1 l-in-law and Halspv's wife. , i ? j had only denied them- pamStaKing'j tfioro SKlil 111'd.i^W isitors and reporters?were reCjllireS. '-S? be in hiding in some selents of the great castle on \r -n j i _ ^1 shore, a place actually but YOU wiL find here a HIOS^B i to any member of the se- comprehensive display of de-^ 3ide society in which Rawn . , , , ? n , nore or less on sufferance, SlgnS tO Select XrOIXlj all HlOSt Rawn'. wife was aiao lo- reasonably priced and ALL in a condition verging on j .e ru wording to the imagination Splendid examples 01 the ^rto'the'tTOt"61' alI> was finest granite and marble and workmanship. be continued). your inspection is invited. 1 EES' EXAMINATION. ination of applicants for D U DAYTTD ? CAM jrtificates will be held on * * I/xlillLin VX uVll 2, at the court house. The I will begin at 9 a. m. Ar Newberry, S. C. II furnish stationery. E. H. Aull, u?ty Swpt of Education. iiwaasmmmmmmm****